CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Knor, Petr |
|---|---|
| Title | EDUCATING TOWARDS SEGREGATION: When education enforces conflicting identities and normalizes social segregation for political gain |
| Summary | Education is one of the most important experiences in one’s life. As it prepares students for life in their society, it also critically shapes their social identity and perspectives on their citizens. In post-conflict multinational societies, education systems struggle to balance between the need to provide quality education and equal opportunities, and the rights of various groups to educate their own children to protect their unique group identity. These societies then end up with a segregated education system that promotes social segregation and prevent reconciliation. This thesis builds an inquiry into this field. It analyzes local interpretations of education experiences in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to reconstruct how segregated education in post-conflict multinational affects students, concretely their social identity and prejudice towards the other group. In local view, local ethnonationalist leaders hijacked the consociational educational system to promote and normalize segregation for their own gain. The research also discusses the utility of the concept of a ‘divided city’ and rejects it as an over-stretched analytical category that misguides research with unfounded assumptions. |
| Supervisor | Matthijs Bogaards |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/knor_petr.pdf |
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